Davis Holds BioMed and Engineering Entrepreneurship Event
UC Davis Graduate School of Management students participated in the BioMedical and Engineering Entrepreneurship Academy July 9 to July 11, 2014. The academy is an intensive program integrating lecture, exercises and individual projects. Participants work to identify, design and validate market opportunities for their research.
The event connects students, researchers and faculty with industry representatives and investors assembled some of the university’s largest departments. The event is co-sponsored by the UC Davis College of Engineering, School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine and the Office of Research.
Bertarelli Foundation Plans to Give $3 Million to Babson
Babson College announced at the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) that the Bertarelli Foundation plans to fund the chair of the Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship with a $3 million gift to the school. The chair will lead a multidisciplinary approach to family enterprise, where the family is the focus.
Also announced at BCERC, was a new research prize named for Ernesto Bertarelli, a 1989 graduate of Babson College, in recognition of his family’s history of fostering entrepreneurship. The Bertarelli Prize will reward $2,500 to the best family entrepreneurship paper presented at the 2014 BCERC.
“Family entrepreneurs face a unique challenge,” said Dona Bertarelli, co-chair of The Bertarelli Foundation. “As their businesses grow or change, they, too, need to adapt and evolve. At the same time, they need to preserve the original and special strengths, passions, and entrepreneurial characteristics of the family as they move in new directions. Through this faculty chair and our partnership with Babson College, we will have the opportunity to study this dynamic and help a new generation of individuals become tomorrow’s family entrepreneurs.”
Family entrepreneurship has been at the core of Babson College from its founding. Babson College was established to educate the sons of businessmen to join their fathers’ businesses. Babson’s vast experience with family businesses includes nearly a century of teaching, research and programming for students, alumni and friends of the College.
The Bertarelli Foundation was founded in 1998 in memory of Fabio Bertarelli, by his widow Maria Iris and children, Dona and Ernesto. For the first ten years, the foundation worked primarily to establish and develop healthcare projects building upon the legacy of the Serono Foundation, focusing on issues relating to human reproductive health. In 2008 it extended its horizons to focus on more general life science research and marine conservation.
Enstitute Co-Founder Kane Sarhan to Keynote Tenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest
Pace University’s Lubin School of Business will hold its tenth annual Pitch Contest on Thursday, April 17 at the University’s lower Manhattan campus. The event is presented by Lubin’s state-of-the-art Entrepreneurship Lab.
Kane Sarhan, co-founder of Enstitute, the first national apprenticeship program for 21st century careers in business, technology, design, and entrepreneurship, will be the keynote speaker. Before co-founding Enstitute, Sarhan launched and ran his own magazine, The College Gossip Chronicles, raised over $100k for hackNY, a nonprofit in New York City, and was the creative director at LocalResponse, a top New York City tech startup.
The Pace Pitch Contest is based on the “elevator pitch” concept popular in the venture capital community. Contestants prepare an extremely concise presentation of an entrepreneurial idea, business model, marketing strategy, competitive analysis, and financial plan, which is delivered to potential investors. The premise is that it could be made in a few minutes should the entrepreneur spot a potential investor on an elevator and have the opportunity to pitch his or her idea during the brief ride.
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Fox School of Business Names Lenfest Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Dr Mitrabarun “MB” Sarkar, Professor in the Department of Strategic Management and founding Academic Director of the Global Immersion Program at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, has been named the H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest Professorship in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Dr. Sarkar has been a member of the school’s faculty since 2008, and his appointment to the Lenfest Professorship began Jan. 1, 2014.
This distinguished professorship is named in honor of H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest, the well-known media entrepreneur and philanthropist. In 2006, he received the Musser Award for Excellence in Leadership from the Fox School, its highest honor. Lenfest is a trustee of Temple University.
“We are indebted to Gerry for his invaluable contributions to Temple University over many years,” said M. Moshe Porat, Dean of the Fox School of Business. “We are especially grateful to Gerry for his generosity in making it possible to create this endowed professorship in entrepreneurship and innovation, which are two of the most important pillars of our strategy as we transition into creating a world-class research, teaching and service institution in Philadelphia.”
Sarkar is a renowned scholar and a highly decorated professor. In 2013, he received the Great Teacher Award, which is Temple University’s highest honor. He has also received the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award from the Fox Professional MBA Program in 2009, 2011 and 2013; from the Fox Online MBA Program in 2011 and 2013; and from the Fox Executive MBA Program in 2012 and 2014.
MIT Associate Dean Appointed to British Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology
Professor Fiona Murray, MIT Sloan’s Associate Dean for Innovation, was appointed by British Prime Minister David Cameron to his Council for Science and Technology. The Council is tasked with advising the Prime Minister on science and technology policy issues that affect multiple governmental departments in the United Kingdom, including education, research, policy and the economy. The appointment was made for a 22 month period, and comes after Cameron visited the MIT campus last year to meet with Professor Murray, as well as the President of MIT, faculty and student entrepreneurs
In addition to her role as Associate Dean, Professor Murray is the faculty director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, and in role as the Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship teaches the popular Innovations Teams class. She is an international expert on the transformation of investments in scientific and technical innovation into innovation-based entrepreneurship that drives jobs, wealth creation, and regional prosperity. Murray has a special interest in how policies, programs, and relationships between academia and industry can be designed to accelerate the productive role of universities in their local entrepreneurial ecosystem. She has also studied access to venture capital and the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs.
